Los Angeles producer GDNA teams up with beatmaker Jo Def for the airy and synth-led "Reasons".

The Los Angeles-based musician and producer GDNA describes himself as “the melodic apothecary peddling medicine for the melancholic.” You can confirm his alliterate appellation by downloading the track “Reasons”, his collaboration with beatmaker and lyricist Jo Def, which you can do exclusively here at PopMatters. Citing influences such as Flying Lotus and Dwele, The LA Timessays of the tune, “‘Reasons’ is nothing if not of the moment.”

Squarepusher conjures a world of hectic electronic darkness with its latest recording.

The English electronic project Squarepusher, helmed by Tom Jenkinson, will release its 14th studio LP, Damogen Furies, via Warp on 21 April. This LP follows 2012’s Ufabulum. With this album, Squarepusher intends “to explore as forcefully as possible the hallucinatory, the nightmarish and the brutally visceral capacities of electronic music”, to use his own words.

Need some sonic rays of sunshine to cut through the winter doldrums? The joyous "In the Sun" by the Australian singer Vassy will do just the trick.

Although it’s winter in the United States right now, you might be transported to the summer months by the disposition of the Australian singer Vassy, whose latest single “In the Sun” is the kind of summer jam that’s designed to be blasted out of hatchback car radios and beach boomboxes. Of course, it’s summertime in Vassy’s native Australia, but this buoyant pop jam is enough to make it feel as if the season is spreading all around the world.

As a tribute to a recently departed fan, Steven Wilson and Mariusz Duda (of Lunatic Soul and Riverside fame) have teamed up for the gorgeous song "The Old Peace".

Prog giants Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, No-Man) and Mariusz Duda (Lunatic Soul, Riverside) have teamed up in recording a new song, “The Old Peace”. The track is a tribute to a recently departed fan of Wilson and Duda’s; the proceeds from the sale of the single will go cancer related charities.

Turkish rapper Da Poet returns with another set of moody hip-hop instrumentals.

Still exploring the ambits of hip-hop grooves and jazzy sonics, Turkish rapper and beatmaker Da Poet adds yet another album of instrumentals to his repertoire of work. Last year’s instrumentals collection, Beattape, dipped into artfully lush chill-out and marked the artist’s crossover success, gaining attention overseas with hip-hop and downtempo aficionados. The rapper’s latest is mainly a collection of instrumentals from his 2011 album, Poetika, which was a sizeable hit in Turkey’s underground hip-hop scene. Stripped bare of Da Poet’s earnest and fluid raps, all emphasis is placed on the rapper’s most overlooked skill: his ability to create haunting and evocative melodies.